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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two protesters hold a banner in Central Park that reads, "Smash Racist Courts! Free the Panther 21, sds." Park benches are stacked on top of each other in ... |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings. |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre... |
| Date: | 10 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest of the decision to ban the Delta Gamma ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A long, orderly line of student sorority and fraternity members carrying umbrellas and marching in pairs to protest the decision to ban the Delta Gamma sor... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af... |
| Date: | 09 12 1974 |
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| Description: | View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "S. Boston kids preparing to hang an effigy." One of the boys is standing on the top of the chain-link fence helping the boy ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ... |
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